North Korea restoring part of launch site it promised Trump to dismantle

[turbinetree]

Source: Reuters

World News
March 5, 2019 / 11:19 AM / Updated 8 minutes ago

David Brunnstrom, Lisa Lambert

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last year, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency and a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday.

Yonhap quoted lawmakers briefed by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) as saying that the work was taking place at the Tongchang-ri launch site and involved replacing a roof and a door at the facility.

Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between Feb. 16 and March 2, Jenny Town, managing editor at the project and an analyst at the Stimson Center think tank, told Reuters.

The news comes days after a second summit on denuclearization between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down over differences on how far North Korea was willing to limit its nuclear program and the degree of U.S. willingness to ease sanctions.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-nuclear/north-korea-restoring-part-of-launch-site-it-promised-trump-to-dismantle-idUSKCN1QM1ZA?il=0

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And the POS wondering around the white house playing on his arcade game of golf, to save money said no South Korea and United Sates spring military exercises, but the psychopath in North Korea, moving full speed ahead with his toys of destruction.............................the art of the deal my ass.........................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.........................

[sakabatou]

1. Trump has been giving into NK's demands

[real Cannabis calm]

9. Absolutely: And he brags on his ability as a "deal-maker"

Most deals he has made, as president, fall through or are obviously detrimental to the USA and/or our allies and trading-partners.

[yaesu]

2. that love affair didn't last long nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. "It's the Democrat party's fault!" in 5 ... 4 ... 3 .... NT

[Canoe52]

4. I just tweeted him to let him know, I'm sure he'll get right on it.

[IronLionZion]

5. Art of the deal, since Trump does the same with his promises

[soryang]

6. This move was probably the least of many possible negative moves

Kim could make. It's a reminder of the potential ICBM threat most analysts regard as not perfected at this point and needing further development.

I thought maybe restarting reactor operations at Yongbyun would be next.

[area51]

7. Way to go, Trump,

tired of all your "winning" yet?

[Mr. Smith]

8. I'm fine with canceling the military exercises--they are playing with fire.

The military exercises consist of fake invasions of North Korea. That forces the North Korean military to go on high alert. Then somebody fucks up and shoots down a civilian airliner, and there's war on the peninsula, with a country that has the ability to send nukes our way.

[jmowreader]

10. There's a reason for those exercises

The idea is to have two divisions on the ground in South Korea at the optimal time for the North to invade. We can’t just pack 30k troops into Korea and have them do nothing, so we send them to the field.

[Mr. Smith]

11. Check this out:

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel

It's a terrifying tale of military exercises, misjudgments, political incompetence in Washington, and Armageddon.

[jcmaine72]

12. What a brilliant tactician and negotiator.

Too bad Bryce Harper didn't have Dump as his agent instead of Scott Boras. He would've walked away with a $300 /week contract instead of $300 million.

I guess these are the sorts of negotiating tactics that made Dumpo such a "great businessman".

[pig benis]

13. Trump isn't getting his Nobel prize

He is a failure.